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17:29 Cuban Advances in Uro...
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Havana, Dec 8 Cuba has outstanding results in the treatment of prostate cancer, experiences that will be presented in the 12th Central American and Caribbean Urology Congress opened here in Havana Tuesday. Comment?
Prostate Hormone Therapy May Up Heart Risks
... who have heart attacks do not die of those heart attacks," she said. Dr. Peter Albertsen, a professor and chief of urology at the University of Connecticut Health Center, said that "the point of this paper is to help physicians understand that ... Comment?
Cancerous Kidneys -- Better than nothing?
... d-stage renal failure who could die waiting for a healthy donor organ. None of the patients has yet developed cancer urology journal BJUI reports. Comment?
Barbara bids farewell after 37 years at Warrington Hospital
... from nurse to carer as she worked on many wards ranging from womena s surgical, to mena s surgical, and then on to Urology and Breast surgery ward. Barbara said: a oeA lady I was working with at the time told me that she was putting me forward for ... Comment?
University Hospitals in Cleveland reorganizes management structure, will add 500 jobs
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... in which doctors who specialize in certain medical areas coordinate care and share outcomes. The focuses will be urology, neurology, eye, digestive health and heart and vascular. New leadership appointments include: Steve Standley, who has been in ... Comment?
Building Bladders Inside The Body
... use robotic technology to build new bladders inside the body. Murugesan Manoharan, M.D., an associate professor of urology at the University of Miami, says using the robot has advantages such as preciseness, less pain, less bleeding, shorter ... Comment?
America's Top Doctors for Cancer Recognizes 19 IU Simon Cancer Center Physicians
... Robert Fallon, M.D. (pediatric hematology-oncology) Sherif Farag, M.B.B.S., Ph.D. (hematology) Richard Foster, M.D. (urology) Robert Goulet Jr., M.D. (surgery) Paul Haut, M.D., F.A.A.P. (pediatric hematology/oncology) Valerie Jackson, M.D. ... Comment?
Inside Our Schools: If doctors were treated like teachers
If doctors were treated like teachers: 1. Medical schools would certify doctors as qualified to begin practicing medicine after one semester's experience in a hospital instead of the usual three years. Comment?
On the Record / December 8, 2009
... Institute appointed Dr. Thomas Schwaab staff physician and assistant professor of oncology in the departments of urology and immunology. Most recently at the Center for Urologic Care at Concord Hospital, Concord, N. H., Schwaab also served as an ... Comment?
UK doctors combat donor shortage
... 41 months later. Regular check-ups have failed to find any signs of the cancer coming back, the British Journal of Urology International reports. Dr Phelan said rising levels of obesity and high blood pressure meant more and more people were ... Comment?
Ask the Doctor: I've got a painful testicle. What do you advise?
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Dr Martin Scurr has been treating patients for more than 30 years and is one of the country's leading GPs. Comment?
Chilton Memorial Hospital performs kidney procedures with aid of da Vinci robotic system
Chilton Memorial Hospital urologist Tricia Greene performed the hospital's first robot-assisted pyeloplasty and partial nephrectomy kidney procedures with the assistance of the da Vinci robotic surgical system last month. Comment?
Prostate cancer survivors gather to thank Hackensack University Medical Center doctors
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... with the da Vinci robotic surgical system. All of the doctors are from the New Jersey Center for Prostate Cancer and Urology. Each survivor tried out the robot that helped saved their lives. Besides performing the surgeries, they are also teaching ... Comment?
Fighting Prostate Cancer With Speed And Accuracy: RapidArc ...
Main Category: Prostate / Prostate Cancer Also Included In: Cancer / Oncology ; Urology / Nephrology ; Men's health Article Date: 07 Dec 2009 - 19:00 PST Former New Jersey Assemblyman Francis Bodine was surprised and delighted when his radiotherapy treatment sessions for prostate cancer went from about 20 minutes each day to less than five. Comment?
Fighting Prostate Cancer With Speed And Accuracy: RapidArc...
... about 20 minutes each day to less than five. Midway through his course of treatment, doctors at the Delaware Valley Urology Cancer Center acquired the region's first RapidArc radiotherapy technology from Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: VAR), making it ... Comment?
Lecture held on urinary tract infection
Dr William Bhatti, Head of the Department of Paediatric Surgery, said that urinary tract infection was a common and serious problem faced by children that often necessiated their hospitalisation. Comment?
Enzyme May Hold The Key To Treating Kidney Disease And Diabetes
Main Category: Urology / Nephrology Also Included In: Diabetes ; Biology / Biochemistry Article Date: 07 Dec 2009 - 9:00 PST Over 320 000 has been jointly awarded to Nottingham Trent University and The University of Sheffield by The Wellcome Trust, to fund important research into an enzyme which is believed to hold the key to treating kidney ... Comment?
Many Prostate Cancers Caught by Screening Won't Kill
The number of prostate cancers diagnosed in UK men each year would jump from 30,000 to 160,000 if the country introduced population-wide screening for the disease, new research shows. Comment?
Cincinnati Children's Receives Traffic Safety Grant
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... respiratory diseases, cancer, neonatal care, heart care, neurosurgery, diabetes, orthopedics, kidney disorders and urology. One of the three largest childrena s hospitals in the U.S., Cincinnati Childrena s is affiliated with the University of ... Comment?
Cancerous Kidney Transplants Deemed a Success
Surgeons said some "risky" kidney transplants proved to be successful, the BBC News reported. Comment?